Thanks. I was worried I didn't explain it clearly. The first time I learned that some states had different ways of voting, it boggled my mind. It took my MIL about 3 times trying to explain it to me for me to begin to understand (kinda). 😁
I've been trying to figure out the issue you spoke about with some return envelopes being pre-paid and others that need to have stamps put on in order to mail.
Obviously that's extremely biased and should be stopped. But I'm having some trouble finding out why some are prepaid and others aren't.
The only explanation I've discovered so far is how ballots for primaries in states like the one we discussed above about where you have to declare a party, and then you can only vote in that party's primary.
It appears to be that in some of those primaries, each party is responsible for designing,manufacturing, and distributing their own ballots to be mailed in.
So the Republicans will make their own ballots and send them out and the Democrats will make their own ballots and send them out. And they have guidelines from the voting commission that they are required to follow.
So the only answer that I can come up with that would explain the differences in the mail in ballots you're talking about above is that one party (in this case the Democrats) chose to provide prepaid envelopes for the ballot to be mailed back and that the other party (Republicans) chose to not do prepaid for their mail envelopes, having the voter to pay that.
It took a bit of time to dig around from the beginning to see how ballots are made and distributed and returned and the laws that surround that stuff.
And that's just from one state. Another state could do it completely differently.
I wish I could spend the time to do a deep dive on all the states that allow mail in ballots, but I just can't.
So on this little dive I did here suggested to me that nothing nefarious is going on with the differences in the postage. Looks like one party (Republicans) decided to save the money for something they thought was more important. And the Democrats there decided it would benefit them to pay for the postage.
And when I think about it, I see the logic behind it. Conservatives are well known to be concentious voters. Rain, snow, sunshine, hurricanes, zombie outbreak. They don't care, they **WILL ** get their vote in.
Democrats, on the other hand., are pretty lazy and only a small percentage of them actually vote consistently. I have no.doubt that the.effort it would take for them to figure out where to get stamps, and then actually having to, you know, put them on the envelope would be too much of a.bother to vote.
Sorry this post is so long. I ramble. 😁
If anyone wants to look into this type of stuff, Here's a site that can get you started with the basics and point you to places that explain this stuff;
Thanks. I was worried I didn't explain it clearly. The first time I learned that some states had different ways of voting, it boggled my mind. It took my MIL about 3 times trying to explain it to me for me to begin to understand (kinda). 😁
I've been trying to figure out the issue you spoke about with some return envelopes being pre-paid and others that need to have stamps put on in order to mail.
Obviously that's extremely biased and should be stopped. But I'm having some trouble finding out why some are prepaid and others aren't.
The only explanation I've discovered so far is how ballots for primaries in states like the one we discussed above about where you have to declare a party, and then you can only vote in that party's primary.
It appears to be that in some of those primaries, each party is responsible for designing,manufacturing, and distributing their own ballots to be mailed in.
So the Republicans will make their own ballots and send them out and the Democrats will make their own ballots and send them out. And they have guidelines from the voting commission that they are required to follow.
So the only answer that I can come up with that would explain the differences in the mail in ballots you're talking about above is that one party (in this case the Democrats) chose to provide prepaid envelopes for the ballot to be mailed back and that the other party (Republicans) chose to not do prepaid for their mail envelopes, having the voter to pay that.
It took a bit of time to dig around from the beginning to see how ballots are made and distributed and returned and the laws that surround that stuff.
And that's just from one state. Another state could do it completely differently.
I wish I could spend the time to do a deep dive on all the states that allow mail in ballots, but I just can't.
So on this little dive I did here suggested to me that nothing nefarious is going on with the differences in the postage. Looks like one party (Republicans) decided to save the money for something they thought was more important. And the Democrats there decided it would benefit them to pay for the postage.
And when I think about it, I see the logic behind it. Conservatives are well known to be concentious voters. Rain, snow, sunshine, hurricanes, zombie outbreak. They don't care, they **WILL ** get their vote in.
Democrats, on the other hand., are pretty lazy and only a small percentage of them actually vote consistently. I have no.doubt that the.effort it would take for them to figure out where to get stamps, and then actually having to, you know, put them on the envelope would be too much of a.bother to vote.
Sorry this post is so long. I ramble. 😁
If anyone wants to look into this type of stuff, Here's a site that can get you started with the basics and point you to places that explain this stuff;
https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/voting-by-mail-absentee-voting